The U.S. government is urging senior government officials and politicians to ditch phone calls and text messages following intrusions at major American telecommunications companies blamed on Chinese hackers. read more
On Wednesday, OpenAI launched a 1-800-CHATGPT (1-800-242-8478) telephone number that anyone in the US can call to talk to ChatGPT via voice chat for up to 15 minutes for free. The company also says that people outside the US can send text messages to the same number for free using WhatsApp. read more
A partial government shutdown this weekend could delay troops' paychecks at the start of the new year and shutter some base recreation activities just before Christmas, yielding a stressful holiday season for military families. read more
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) suggested Elon Musk serve as Speaker in a Thursday morning post on X following contentious debates over the continuing resolution. read more
Florida is set to duke it out in the courtroom with the adult entertainment industry over a state law that would require websites that host adult content to verify the age of their users. read more
A New York resident has unearthed a mastodon jaw protruding out of the topsoil in the backyard of their home, the first such find in more than 11 years. read more
One such prediction has to do with Apple (and Tesla), providing a glimpse into how Wall Street is viewing the looming Trump tariffs and their impact on US tech companies. read more
Rockefeller Center is proposing to rip out its glowing glass signage in favor of LEDs. It joins a heap of others. read more
Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency as the H5N1 bird flu virus moves from the Central valley to Southern California herds and federal officials confirmed flu in a Louisiana patient hospitalized with severe illness. read more
While the current wave of discriminatory policies will do obvious harm to the transgender community, they're also meant to distract from the myriad ways we're all getting fleeced. read more
A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services. read more
A new investigation from The New York Times suggests that SpaceX founder Elon Musk has not been reporting his travel activities and other information to the Department of Defense as required by his top-secret clearance. read more
My take on this story was: "Black market Restaurant Reservations is a thing?" The answer to this question is yes. Apparently 3rd-party companies use AI bots to make reservations at popular restaurants and then sell them for a profit. read more
I post this not just for the historical significance, but the clown car of promoters is ascendent again. read more
Tom Cruise has been awarded the US Navy's highest civilian honour for "outstanding contributions" to the military with his screen roles. read more
Russell Berman: Trump's popular-vote margin has shrunk to about 1.5 percent -- one of the tightest in the past half century -- and because some votes went to third-party and independent candidates, he'll fall just short of winning a majority of the vote nationwide. And in the House, they gained a seat, leaving the GOP with the second-smallest majority in history. read more
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